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...African slave trade, and a feeling of supremacy still prevails among the Janjaweed. Soyinka said the Janjaweed are “motivated” by a mentality in which they see their victims as nothing more than slaves. “You destroy a people if you treat them with disdain,” Soyinka said. The speech at the Center for Government and International Studies drew a full house and was followed by a question-and-answer session with Soyinka. Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, called the speech “brilliant...
...eventually devolved into the drug free-for-all of the '70s. But the new research is careful and promising. Last year two top journals, the Archives of General Psychiatry and the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, published papers showing clear benefits from the use of psychedelics to treat mental illness. Both were small studies, just 27 subjects total. But the Archives paper--whose lead author, Dr. Carlos Zarate Jr., is chief of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research Unit at NIMH--found "robust and rapid antidepressant effects" that remained for a week after depressed subjects were given ketamine (colloquial name: Special...
...knowing who had sold the least—and so took the blame for a faulty concept.While Ruggiero might not have been as conniving as her fellow contestants, and may also have seen an opportunity to showcase women’s hockey through the show, she always intended to treat the experience as a competitive job interview.“I’m the third-oldest member of the U.S. [women’s hockey] team,” she continued during the teleconference. “I’m in the process of trying to figure...
...region that is often impoverished and ravaged by violence. “Hezbollah offers an array of social services to its constituents that include construction companies, schools, hospitals, dispensaries, and micro-finance initiatives,” he writes. “Hezbollah hospital and clinic staff also treat walk-in patients, regardless of political views or their sect, for only a small fee.” Yet Norton also deals with the violent aspects of Hezbollah, including its conflict with Israel in the summer of 2006, which garnered a vast amount of attention from the international community. Norton wisely avoids...
...airline's marketing hasn't done it any favors: The Porter mascot is a raccoon, public pest number one for Toronto home owners because the rampant critters nest under their homes, claw into their garbage and treat TV antenna towers as a ladder. "The airline is elegant and upscale, so why go with a Disneyesque marketing approach?" says Barry Avrich, filmmaker and president of Toronto ad agency Endeavour, who on a recent Porter round-trip was one of six passengers...